Quick and Easy Email Filter Trick

I just thought I’d share a quick tip for anyone who subscribes to too many email newsletters, like I do. If you want to add a filter to *all* newsletters, what’s the easiest way to do it? Make it find “newsletter” somewhere in the subject or body? Maybe, but what if the email doesn’t even contain that?

Well, here’s a tip. Make a filter that looks through the body of the email, and finds the word “unsubscribe”. Pretty much every newsletter contains that word, and if you want to take it a bit further, “remove me” is another phrase that’s often used. Sure, you might get a few false positives, and it might miss a few (for example, the “new follower” email from Twitter doesn’t say “unsubscribe”, it says something else), but most of the time, it works, and it works well.

Easy, and pretty obvious too.